ME 470 Mechanical Design & Manufacturing II – Spring 2022

Michael Lavagnino

Michael Lavagnino
Academic Specialist
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Water Displacement Mechanism

The goal in this project is to design and manufacture a mechanism that can move as much water as possible in one minute from a 5 gallon bucket on the floor to a bucket 5 feet in the air. The teams will utilize 4-bar linkages and human power to compete in displacing the most water possible in one minute. Students will utilize materials and manufacturing capabilities from the Manufacturing Teaching Laboratory (MTL) as well as premade components.

Team 1A
Cameron Dork
Luke Janecke
Connor Laubach
Anjali Patel 

Team 1B
John Dibella
Alex Feige Richard Lin
Suven Sinha 

Team 2A
Brittany Bush
Sarvesh Subramanian
Stephen Tamboer
Ryleigh Turner 

Team 2B
Seth Gower
Alexandra Iorga
Hailey Kelley
Zach White 

Team 3A
Ben Finkbeiner
Sean Lickfold
Alex Oreilly
Tommy Wierzbicki 

Team 3B
Evan Backer
Caleb Holtschlag
Kainnon Vilminot 

Team 4A
Atticus Crimmins
Jake Cuffaro
Jack Girling
Kendall Lusk

Team 4B
Noah Goldman
Katie Mcmillan
Emily Peterson
Andrew Reddy 

Team 5A
Jeremy Balzer
Scott Fingeroth
Kearri Myrick
Luke Willemsen 

Team 5B
Jahzeel Alcantar
Gallegos Qixian Chen
Michael Gertley
Sepehr Hosseinkhani 

Team 6A
Paxton Angliss
Miguel Jarquin-Lopez
Saeha Lederle
Andrew Pieper 

Team 6B
Beth Caldwell
Justin de Coster
Jaclyn Duff
Abdulhamid Salem 

Team 7A
Kobie Davis
Eric Ernvall
Aaron McDowell
Daniel Vance 

Team 7B
Kyle Anulare
Ryan Bartlett
Parang Khanal
Noah Moyer

Team 8A
Gianna Andriacchi
Jennifer Blowers
Evan Lamb
Max Wiedemann 

Team 8B
Nick Crane
Jericho Herblet
Bryce Hitchcock
Nicholas Michaels 

Team 9A
Conner Cadieux
Dino Iovtchev
Nathan Kowalski
Mark Zum Mallen 

Team 9B
Elco Blanco
Bradley Matte
Mark McCloskey
Jackey Tran 

Team 10A
Nathaniel Clarke
Jacob Cristofori
Bryn Dittmar
Julia Fox 

Team 10B
Zaid Almodhi
Kyle Pawlowski
Donnie Schuster
Cole Treece 

Team 11A
Spencer Labuda
Cole Lutkenhoff
Peter Phan
Thomas Supal

Team 11B
Frederick Bruner
Tyler Marshall
Austin Pollock
Shamit Topiwala 

Team 12A
Erin Chynoweth
Maddy McKown
Rob Paquette
Olivia Reyes 

Team 12B
Alejandro Castillo
Jeffrey Li
Tommy McGowan
Michael Strong 

Team 13A
Bill Altier IV
Amber Bliven
Hyun Kim
Ash McKesson 

Team 14B
Mason Chorpenning
Eric Douglas
Van Duong
Mitchell Essenmacher 

Team 15A
Olivia Lage
Ryan Peters
Spencer Stefani
Grace Veenstra
Kyle Zerafa